10 BRAIN SAVER SHIFTER SHOTS

1.

Obsessive Thoughts Shifter

Break a repeated pattern of painful thoughts; a relapse of OCD, chronic OCD; a song you don’t want to hear any more that keeps playing in your head; repetitive thoughts; repetitive thoughts leading to repeated actions; hearing voices in your head that are not in your best interest, are questionable and may be telling you to do things that aren’t smart or good

Ingredients

Directions

1 radish

1/8 cup loosely packed fresh sage (about 8 leaves)

½ to 1 apple

1 stalk celery

Run all the ingredients through a juicer in the order listed from top to bottom

Pour into a glass and serve

2.

Mood Shifter

Irritability, chronic frustration, crankiness; feeling overwhelmed; when someone you trust says you are not yourself; feeling gloomy, downhearted or low spirited; having a hard time keeping balance emotionally, feeling like you’re unsteady, get triggered easily, are you are up and down.

Ingredients

Directions

1 Tbsp fresh or thawed frozen wild blueberries, or 1 tsp wild blueberry juice, or 1 tsp pure wild blueberry powder,

1/4 cup tightly packed fresh chives

1/4 cup tightly packed fresh basil

1/2 cup tightly packed fresh alfalfa

1/2 lime, peeled

1 stalk celery

1/2 cup grapes (optional)

Run each ingredient through a juicer in the order listed from top to bottom

If you can’t find blueberries, you can substitute with blackberries. Although a high antioxidant alternative, blackberries do not have the same potency to match how wild blueberries defend cells from metals, chemicals, radiation, and other toxins.

If you can’t find or don’t like alfafa sprouts, you can use any kind of sprouts or microgreens in this recipe, such as broccoli, clover, sunflower, or kale.

3.

Nerve Shifter

If you feel anxious or shaky, or neurological twitches, tics, spasms, restless legs; when struggling with any kind of neurological onset; to break a nervous feeling about the moment you’re in, the future, or something that happened in the past; To help calm restless legs syndrome; before flying or taking a trip.

Ingredients

Directions

¼ lime, peeled

¼ cup tightly packed spinach

¼ cup roughly chopped kale, tightly packed

¼ cup roughly chopped lettuce, such as green leaf or butter leaf, tightly packed

¼ cup tightly packed fresh cilantro

¼ cup tightly packed fresh parsley

2 raw medium stalks asparagus (1/4 cup chopped)

½ stalk celery

Run each ingredient through a juicer in the order listed from top to bottom

4.

Energy Shifter

Need an energy boost at the midpoint of a long day; when you feel unbalanced as if you don’t have enough energy; if your energy is “off” and you’re not on point; if you feel like you have too much energy, and you’re hoping to calm down  an elevation of excitement; when removing caffeine from your life; when you want to wind down at the end of the day so you can recalibrate, rest and retire for the night.

Overactive or underactive adrenals that are exhausted from excessive adrenal output.

Low blood sugar sensations such as edginess, exhaustion, feeling emotional for unexplained reasons or getting triggered easily.

Ingredients

Directions

¼ cup chopped carrots

½ cup chopped raw sweet potatoes

½ cup chopped red bell pepper

½ cup fresh or thawed frozen pineapple

Run each ingredient through a juicer in the order listed from top to bottom

Pour into a glass and serve

5.

Food Fear Shifter

Food fear can take different shapes and forms. For example, apply this shot on a regular basis if you’re living with an eating disorder. The food fear shifter is also useful when someone is pressuring you not to eat healthy; you’re upset about what you’ve been eating lately; you’re feeling locked up about food in general, afraid to eat because you’re having trouble figuring out what foods you can eat comfortably without flaring up symptoms such a s digestive discomfort; you’re experiencing other symptoms or conditions, and you’re afraid of changing your diet to heal; someone wants you to eat healthy yet you’re afraid of fruits, herbs, leafy greens, wild foods and vegetables. You have an unexplained dislike or fear of certain foods that are healthy; you have a fear of food that derives from misinformation; you’re having a hard time letting go of a comfort food that’s harming you.

Ingredients

Directions

½ cup tightly packed fresh dill

½ cup tightly packed spinach

¾ cup fresh or thawed frozen mango

¼ stalk celery

Run each ingredient through a juicer in the order listed from top to bottom

Pour into a glass and serve

6.

Cravings Shifter

When cravings or addictive impulses are disrupting your life, this shot is a great tool; For hunger that feels insatiable or unstoppable; as a craving buster; As a hunger suppressant when you’re trying to shift your diet; If your diet is too high in fat and you’re trying to reduce the amount of fat; to help break patterns, food addictions, or even caffeine and salt addictions.

If someone in your life is embarking on an unhealthy intermittent fasting diet, encourage them to incorporate this shot to help protect their adrenals and brain.

Ingredients

Directions

½-inch piece of fresh ginger

¼ cup tightly packed fresh basil

½ cup tightly packed spinach

½ cup chopped kale, tightly

½ cup chopped cabbage, any colour, tightly packed

½ orange, peeled

½ stalk celery

Run each ingredient through a juicer in the order listed from top to bottom

Pour into a glass and serve

7.

Anger Shifter

Unexplained bouts of anger or anger surges that seem without cause; anger surges that do have a cause; anger about being sick, injured and dealing with chronic illness; moments of unhappiness, frustration, irritability; anger triggered from being wronged such as disappointment or betrayal; confrontations of disputes with others; anger about world events; anger at yourself.

Ingredients

Directions

½ cup tightly packed fresh mint

¼ cup tightly packed fresh sage

½ cup fresh or thawed frozen

mango

1 Tbsp fresh or thawed

frozen wild blueberries or

1 tsp wild blueberry or

1 tsp pure wild

blueberry powder*

1 cup chopped carrots

Run each ingredient through a juicer in the order listed from top to bottom. If you are using the wild blueberry juice or wild blueberry powder, mix it in after all the other ingredients have run through the juicer.

Pour into a glass and serve

If you can’t find blueberries, you can substitute with blackberries. Although a high antioxidant alternative, blackberries do not have the same potency to match how wild blueberries defend cells from metals, chemicals, radiation, and other toxins.

8.

Guilt And Shame Shifter

You don’t believe in yourself, or you’ve lost confidence in yourself; You’re losing faith that you’re a good person; You’re feeling guilt or shame about being sick. You inexperience insecurity or loss of confidence due to chronic illness; You’re feeling less-than or like you are not good enough; You can’t forgive yourself for something you may believe was your fault; You’re feeling guilty or shame about something you said and can’t unsay; you’re feeling guilt or shame about not being able to live your dream yet; You’re feeling guilt or shame about not being able to help a friend o family member in the present moment; you’re having difficulty forgiving someone else who hurt you, upset you or disappointed you; you’re feeling guilt or shame in any way – this shot can help you understand and release emotional wounds that are perpetuating guilt or shame.

Ingredients

Directions

1/2-inch piece of fresh ginger

½ to 1 cup tightly packed spinach

½ to 1 orange, peeled

Run each ingredient through a juicer in the order listed from top to bottom. Pour into a glass and serve

9.

Ego Shifter

If you feel like your ego has taken over your senses, or your common sense and sensibility; you’re losing focus of what’s truly important,; you feel like you have been a little self-absorbed; you feel like you’ve been self-consumed without care taking of others; you feel as if something inside of you is controlling your life and decisions while you watch from above; you have a friend of a loved one who has a very large ego and doesn’t believe they do (make the brain shot for them); You feel you need to take control of your life and override the drive to harm yourself; you need to free yourself so your authentic soul shines through and benefits you and the ones around you

Ingredients

Directions

1/2-inch piece of fresh turmeric

1/2 cup chopped peeled kiwi fruit

1 Tbsp fresh or thawed

frozen wild blueberries or

1 tsp wild blueberry juice or

1 tsp pure wild blueberry powder*

1/4 cup chopped portobello

mushroom*

1/4 cup tightly, packed, roughly

chopped kale

1/2 cup tightly packed fresh

parsley

1/2 stalk celery

Run each ingredient through a juicer in the order listed from top to bottom. If using the wild blueberry juice or wild blueberry powder, mix it in after all the other ingredients have run through the juicer.

Pour into glass and serve

**Wash and rinse the portobello mushroom thoroughly with warm to hot water before chopping. Do not use a slimy or decaying mushroom. That's a sign of the mushroom oxidizing and aging.